The party group on the Italian right led to the downfall of Mario Draghi’s government because it did Opinion polls in favor of And the announcement of a high probability of the formation of a right-wing government, consisting of two extreme parties (Fratelli d’Italia and Lega) and the more traditional right, Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.
The Fratelli d’Italia party, founded by Giorgia Meloni, leads the polls with 23% of voting intentions. It cooperates with the Democratic Center Left Party (22%).
The always fragmented Italian parliament forces the government in Rome to always be an alliance, which contributes to the traditional short-term position of each prime minister – Italy moves to the 68th government in 76 years. Mario Draghi formed a seven-party government and after 17 months the union was broken.
Although opinion polls have placed two diametrically opposed forces (Ultras Fratelli d’Italia and the Social Democrats of the Democratic Party) clearly at the top and almost equally, at present only the partners have the right to form a majority to rule: and Legge, led by the nationalist Matteo Salvini, On 15% of voting intentions, Berlusconi shows Forza Italia, in the eternal return, 8%.
On the left, the Democratic Party, after severing ties with its former ally the 5-Star Movement (in three years it fell from 32% to 12%) because this unstable group betrayed the Draghi government of national unity, has only connections to small, worthy parties. 2 to 4%.
The strength of the support positions Giorgia Meloni as the natural leader of the right-wing bloc and the favorite to lead the government after the snap elections on September 25.
Giorgia Meloni, 45, has the advantage of consistency: she has always positioned herself on the more radical and social right. She was born in Garbatella, one of the most popular neighborhoods in Rome and has a tradition of protest. Meloni’s father left home when she was 12, the family was struggling for resources and the 17-year-old went to work as a waitress in a nightclub.
He met a lot of people, and many of the disco-goers were politicians. She was recommended by Berlusconi, who called her in 2003 when she was 29, as youth minister.
But that government, like Berlusconi’s other government, soon fell into tatters. Berlusconi, known to his supporters as Il Cavaliere and opponents as Il Caimano, founded a political bloc known as Popolo della Libertà (PdL) that consolidated the right to rule Italy. Among the parties in this alliance was Francesco Fini headed by Alianza, in which there were several heirs of MSI, the social movement heir to Mussolini’s fascism, weighed.
When Berlusconi’s government fell – he was succeeded by the technical government of Mario Monti, the former governor of the Bank of Italy – Meloni hesitated between joining Alianza or moving to a new party.
It has been around Alianza for some time, but this party has been eclipsed, devoured by internal tensions between the ranks and the post-fascist profile and leadership with democratic beliefs.
Meloni decided to collaborate with friends, in 2011, to found Fratelli d’Italia, the unofficial name for the country’s national anthem. It is a popular party with a radical vision against immigration and in defense of Christian values in Europe. He has great sympathy with the Law and Justice Party in Poland. “God, country and family,” Meloni shouts at gatherings.
In Italy, Fratelli to which Meloni belongs occupies much of the space occupied by the Salvini League. They are special because Salvini is a fan of Putin and Meloni of the Atlantic. Salvini focuses on northern Italy, while Meloni focuses on the entire country. The two parties, Lega and Fratelli, had many ships connected.
The turning point for secession came at the beginning of last year, when the national unity government led by Mario Draghi was formed. Salvini joined, Meloni chose to remain in opposition.
With this choice, Meloni has gone from 6.4% in the European elections in May 2019 to 23% now in the polls. Meloni’s growth corresponds to what Salvini has lost in these three years.
Voters who thought in 2019 to identify themselves with Salvini now prefer it because it has always shown consistency.
Thus Giorgia Meloni, a woman of the people as she always presents herself, a nationalist who speaks clearly and says what angry people like to hear, was at the forefront of bets on governing Italy, beginning next fall.
The leaders at the European Council table who felt comfortable and safe with the financial competence and complicit wisdom of Mario Draghi will now feel an end in the hope of a radical political shift in the management of the Italian government. It won’t be as provocative as France’s Le Pen, but the ideology – except for her relationship with Putin, which Meloni despises – is similar.
Fact to keep in mind: Meloni’s strongest support comes from the extreme generations, both older and younger. Meloni, who is a single mother, published her autobiography, Ayo Sonu Georgia. The DJ did not stop promoting the book on social networks, thereby multiplying the success in sales and popularity.
There are now two months of intense political campaigning in Italy. The dominant confrontation will be between Fratelli d’Italia of Giorgia Meloni and the Democratic Party of Enrico Letta. It is a duel between the far right and some kind of Italian Socialist Party.
Some political scientists speculate that Fratelli d’Italia is as ephemeral a political phenomenon as the Five Star Movement and the League, which lost half its electorate in three years. They also believe that the stability of the Italian political scene has yet to be achieved, after decades of domination by PSI and Christian democracy.
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